Explosion at Hoover Dam

originally posted by: IAMTAT
Is there any water left in Lake Mead?

www.express.co.uk...
At its height, the lake surface sits over 1,200 feet above sea level. But after more than two decades of drought, it is now less than 1,050 feet – the lowest since the lake was filled.

As it falls about a foot a week, the danger is obvious: If it drops to 950 feet, the intakes for the dam won't be under water and the turbines will stop.

a reply to: burntheships

Yes, it was in his tweet.

Cheers

originally posted by: oddscreenname
a reply to: RazorV66

What are the chances of that?

Gibbs' Rule #39: There is no such thing as a coincidence.

Just sayin'.

a reply to: Antisocialist

Actually they built a new intake for the *local* Las Vegas water supply in the deepest part of the lake at 860 feet.
Once you remove the heavy state demand for hydroelectric and municipal water supply at 950 feet, the lake level is extremely unlikely to fall much lower.
Infrastructure at Hoover dam for producing hydroelectric power has probably been upgraded since 1935, few moving parts in a transformer assembly but they are effected by thermal degradation and resistance increases with temperature.

Ambient temp for the area is quite

High 110 °F (Jul 12, 4:56 pm)

Coronal mass ejection.

I think one of the Transformers movies has the answer.

Honestly, the more the happems the more it leads me to believe that it's due to facilities rarely ever upgrading their equipment and lazy maintenance.

Decade after the decade the equipment gets more and more degraded, and the best maintenance can usually do is just rig it to get it running again because management usually never wants things to be down as shortly as possibke, because every passing minute can add up to millions of dollars lost. Speaking of money it's pretty common for management to never want to spend money on replacing degraded parts and upgrading ancient equipment. Hell, where I work sometimes we have to wait just to get some metal stock to fabricate our own parts.

We had to zip tie pvc piping underneath conveyors to keep tension on sprockets, because we can't get authorized to down the line and shorten the conveyor or replace sprockets.

Every place I've worked that's been around for more than a decade has #ty wiring, bad connections, jerry-rigged everything. Rust and corrosion everywhere, things that are ticking time bombs as far as electricity and flammable materials go.

Hell, a couple of years ago one of the ovens caught on fire. The firemen came and chopped the whole thing up. That was probably the only reason that management had to buy a new oven.

I've worked in industrial maintenamce all over the country and it's the same everywhere. Even after a new facility is built it can start to degrade quickly within the first few years, because of ineffective preventative and corrective maintenance and lazy or checked out techs.

Go to any of the facilities in your area and ask for a tour. If they don't want to give you a tour put in an application as if you want a job there and during the interview process they'll usually give you a tour. If you know what you're looking at it won't take long for you to see the wear and tear.

From my experience in the field being an industrial tech is less about maintaining the facility and more about trying to keep the place afloat and from burning down.

originally posted by: AutomateThis1v2
Honestly, the more the happems the more it leads me to believe that it's due to facilities rarely ever upgrading their equipment and lazy maintenance.

Sorry for the grammar and spelling. I'm at work.

originally posted by: F2d5thCavv2
a reply to: Macenroe82

Mac,

Ha! He hasn't been questioned yet. Or, as the British so politely put it, "quizzed".

He may be just an unlucky victim of Lady Synchronicity, or ...

Cheers

That right there is the real smoking gun.

originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
a reply to: v1rtu0s0

Guess it didn't work since it's still there.

Yup, they also tried to blow up one of the WTC's in NYC in the 90's. That also did not work. At first.

originally posted by: everyone
Yup, they also tried to blow up one of the WTC's in NYC in the 90's. That also did not work. At first.

Except that was with explosives and this was a transformer failure that was extinguished before the fire department showed up. You're not blowing up Hoover Dam with conventional explosives, let alone with a faulty transformer.

Except in ATS 🤡 World.

originally posted by: gb540
I'm not a structural engineer, but if conventionals couldn't take down the flak towers they're not touching Hoover Dam.

There's a big difference between the "Flak Towers" and the "Hoover Dam". The towers don't have millions of tons of water pressing against them. All you have to do is to weaken the dam enough and the force of the water will take over. I'm not a Structural Engineer, but, I've taken some of the same classes.

originally posted by: JIMC5499
The towers don't have millions of tons of water pressing against them. All you have to do is to weaken the dam enough and the force of the water will take over. I'm not a Structural Engineer, but, I've taken some of the same classes.

Hoover Dam is a gravity arch dam which deflects most of the water pressure against the opposing cliff faces.

a reply to: AugustusMasonicus

Even with that, if you weaken it enough it will fail.

originally posted by: JIMC5499
Even with that, if you weaken it enough it will fail.

No kidding, but you aren't doing it with conventional explosives, you'd need something specialized, it's far too thick.

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originally posted by: oddscreenname
a reply to: RazorV66

What are the chances of that?

Fairly high